Flatland:
A Romance of Many Dimensions

Section 1: Of the Nature of Flatland ..... 3
Section 2: Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland ..... 5
Section 3: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland ..... 7
Section 4: Concerning the Women ..... 10
Section 5: Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another ..... 14
Section 6: Of Recognition by Sight ..... 18
Section 7: Concerning Irregular Figures ..... 22
Section 8: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting ..... 25
Section 9: Of the Universal Colour Bill ..... 28
Section 10: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition ..... 31
Section 11: Concerning Our Priests ..... 34
Section 12: Of the Doctrine of Our Priests ..... 37

Part II: Other Worlds ..... 41

Section 13: How I Had a Vision of Lineland ..... 43
Section 14: How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland ..... 47
Section 15: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland ..... 52
Section 16: How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland ..... 55
Section 17: How the Sphere, Having Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds ..... 62
Section 18: How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There ..... 64
Section 19: How, Though the Sphere Shewed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of it ..... 68
Section 20: How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision ..... 74
Section 21: How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success ..... 77
Section 22: How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result ..... 79